languishment

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Based on Stewart’s recent cookbook of the same title, the show represents a fresh attempt at the genre after the languishment of a baking program in the kitschy backwoods of the Hallmark Channel.

From Slate • Oct. 17, 2012

Who is more happy, when, with hearts content,   Fatigued he sinks into some pleasant lair   Of wavy grass, and reads a debonair And gentle tale of love and languishment?

From Poems 1817 by Keats, John

There is more in disease than the mere pang and languishment.

From Hypolympia Or, The Gods in the Island, an Ironic Fantasy by Gosse, Edmund

This languishment is come upon him through one that harboured in his hostel, to whom the most Holy Graal appeared.

From The High History of the Holy Graal by Evans, Sebastian

Thou'rt he whose face unites all charms, on whose account My      patience have I lost, for very languishment.

From The Book of the Thousand Nights and One Night, Volume IV by Payne, John